The administration’s proposed cuts for research and development are unprecedented – its funding levels would bring basic and applied research back to levels not seen since the late 1990s, when taking ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has launched a set of guiding principles of responsible chemistry with the aim of transforming how chemistry is practised, taught and ...

Black eye makeup, or kohl, used between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE in the northwest of Iran contained natural graphite and ...

A new derivative of ferrocene has 20 valence electrons, challenging the longstanding rule that organometallic compounds can ...

While each of these industries faces its own challenges, they are united by the themes outlined in Anthony King’s exploration ...

Document's postponement follows recent suspension of staff at Environmental Protection Agency for releasing similar ...

A researcher who lost an arm when her laboratory experiment exploded in March 2016, has reached a settlement of £5 million ...

Every year, horseshoe crabs are harvested for their blue blood, but alternatives are now coming through that could help ...

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

A series of compounds featuring fused six-membered silicon rings represents a step up in complexity for the class of ...

Tetra-substituted alkenes – carbon–carbon double bonds surrounded by four different chemical groups – are a surprisingly ...

Crackers use high temperatures and steam to produce alkenes – mostly ethylene and propylene – from larger hydrocarbons in ...